Appointments, honors and activities

July 13, 2012

• Appointments and promotions:

- David Bahr, currently director of the School of
Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University, has been
named the head of the Purdue College of Engineering School of Materials
Engineering. The appointment is effective Aug. 16. Bahr earned his bachelor's
and master's degrees in materials engineering from Purdue in 1992 and 1993 and
his doctorate in materials science from the University of Minnesota in 1997.
While working on his doctorate, he spent time at Sandia National Laboratories.
He joined the faculty at Washington State in 1997. Before becoming director of
the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, he was campus-wide director
of undergraduate research. In 2000, he received the Presidential Early Career
Award for Scientists and Engineers for his work with Sandia on Department of
Energy stockpile stewardship.

- Michael Swain has been appointed director of Purdue
University's College of Technology at Richmond. Swain joined the College of
Technology at Richmond in 1996, overseeing admissions and student services.
Prior to that, he worked at Ball State University and with Indiana State
government, primarily with the Department of Correction and the Indiana Parole
Board. He received a bachelor's degree in history from Indiana
University-Purdue University Indianapolis and a master's degree in
communication from Ball State.

• Faculty and staff honors:

-Ahmed Sameh, the Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer
Science, received the International Association for Computational Mechanics
Fellow Award 2012. The award was presented during the 10th World Congress on
Computational Mechanics in São Paulo, Brazil on July 12. For more on Sameh,
visit http://www.cs.purdue.edu/people/faculty/sameh/